Are You a Carrie or a Lily?
Lily Ledbetter—complete with sensible blond bob and an Alabama drawl—is the kind of lady who would tell a you to stop wearing peek-a-boo blouses to work and making cookies for the office because both...
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Give Me Broccoli or Give Me Death!
It’s only a bit after 8 a.m. and Russell Mokhiber is shouting at a belly dancer in front of the Supreme Court of the United States.Granted, it’s out of concern—it’s the kind of Washington, D.C., summer...
View ArticleExtreme Makeover: Voting Edition
Elections, like baseball, are a simple game; sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes it rains. The rules are fairly intuitive to Americans from an early age. You’ve got your primaries,...
View ArticleFor Penn State, Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?
Yesterday, the NCAA announced the sanctions it would impose on the Penn State football program after an independent investigation found university administrators—including football coach Joe...
View ArticleLet's Not Make Sally Ride a Gay Icon
A single line in Sally Ride’s obituary has caused a lot of fuss over the last day—the fact that she spent the last 27 years of her life with another woman. It’s a bit of a shame that the buzz of the...
View ArticleThe Graceful Ghetto of Women’s Sports
This year marks the first time that the Olympics will feature women’s boxing, news that heartens feminists and strikes fear in the hearts of men made in the mold of Jennifer Lopez’s (fictional) abusive...
View ArticleWhy Mitt Romney Needs to Get His Instagram On
To say that Mitt Romney has a "Richie Rich" image problem might just be the political understatement of the century; there is the Romney-residence “car elevator,” Ann’s dressage horses, the bevy of...
View ArticleRyan and Biden: No Catholic Guilt Here
The current media frenzy over Paul Ryan seems to boil down to two things: his fiscal conservatism and his broad-shouldered good looks. Not since John F. Kennedy has a White House hopeful caused such a...
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Holy Rollers
(Jesse Lenz)The Sisters of Saint Joseph are waiting for a bus, glistening ever so slightly as they stand in the near-100-degree heat of a late June afternoon, huddled under a couple of pine trees that...
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Libyan Americans Hold a Vigil
(AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri)A Libyan man holds a placard in English during a demonstration against the attack on the U.S. consulate that killed four Americans, including the ambassador, in Benghazi,...
View ArticlePilgrims in an Unholy Land
The Omni Shoreham, in the Woodley Park neighborhood of Washington D.C., is one of those hotels with décor that makes you feel like, as Holly Golightly said of a certain iconic jewelry store in...
View ArticleFree Speech, Lost in Translation
On Saturday, Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Pakistan’s railways minister, held a press conference and declared that he would pay $100,000 of his own money to anyone who could capture the maker of a now-infamous...
View ArticleBums on the Bus
Yesterday, the Nuns On the Bus—the summer’s most devout media darlings, who gained notoriety for their two-week, nine-state bus tour to protest Congressman Paul Ryan’s proposed budget plan—got a rude...
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The Belle of the Electoral College Ball
Clare MaloneThis is part three of the Prospect’s weeklong series on the swing districts that could determine the national outcome on November 6.Soren Norris is pretty sure he’s just been...
View ArticleOhio's Brown Revolution
United States Senator Sherrod Brown is wearing Velcro strap sneakers. They are distinctly geriatric in flavor, black and sturdy-looking, the sort that might be found in the “Mall Walking” section of...
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Long Lines and John Legend: Early Weekend Voting’s Last Day in Ohio
(AP Photo/Mark Duncan)Reverend Jesse Jackson greets voters waiting in line at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland on the final day of early voting Monday, November 5, 2012. About 1.6...
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Ohio Legal Showdown?
(Flickr/rheanvent)If you’re confused by the reports coming out of key battleground state Ohio about last-minute changes to voting rules there, you’re not alone. The state’s current voting regulations...
View ArticleElection Protection on the Streets of Cleveland
They’re not kidding when they say the ads are inescapable in Ohio. Even the simple act of filling up the gas tank meant risking exposure to campaign messaging on Election Day; on the small screen at a...
View ArticleWhy Washington Can’t Stop Talking about "Lincoln"
Advent, as anyone who grew up with the seasonal fire hazard of a dry pine wreath affixed with lit candles or a calendar filled with sub-par chocolates can explain, is a season of preparation. In the...
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The Liberal's Gift-Giving Guide
As Mitt Romney knows all too well, liberals love handing out gifts, and now that it’s the holiday season, we’re excited to extend our generosity beyond minorities, women, and feckless young people....
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